Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman | Even Death Obeys Him

In Luke 8:40–56, Jesus encounters two desperate people: a woman who has suffered for twelve years with an illness no one could heal, and a father whose twelve-year-old daughter is dying.

One woman is considered unclean. One girl is beyond healing because death has already come. But neither is beyond the authority of Jesus.

The woman reaches out to Jesus in faith and is made clean. Jairus is told not to be afraid, but to keep believing. And when Jesus takes the little girl by the hand, even death must obey Him.

Luke continues to show us who Jesus is: the One with authority over creation, evil, disease, uncleanness, and death itself.

And these stories are more than accounts of two people Jesus helped. They are pictures of the Gospel. Through Jesus, the unclean are made clean and the dead are raised to new life.